It's getting out of hand
With an endless variety of cookies, milkshakes, ice cream and cakes, New York makes it very difficult for you to successfully complete the bikini operation.
**CHOCOLATE COOKIE AT LEVAIN BAKERY**
The classic chocolate chip cookie has no mystery and in New York you can find very acceptable ones on any corner. But Levain Bakery plays in another league. To begin with, you have to face it with a lot of appetite or willing to share. We are talking about 170 grams overflowing with butter, sugar, eggs, flour and chocolate in each unit . Not only is it one of the fattest cookies on the market, it is also one of the tastiest because they are served hot and their chocolate chips melt when you bite into them. Of its four varieties we are left with the best: Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip . How to say no to something that has the word chocolate twice in the title?
The cookies that are lunch and dinner
**DYLAN'S CANDY BAR CANDY**
Welcome to the wonderful world of Willy Wonka! And we are completely serious because the closest thing to this sanctuary dedicated to sweets you will only find in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . This paradise for any sweet tooth belongs to Dylan Lauren, daughter of American designer Ralph Lauren , which opened its first store in 2001 in the corner of Third Avenue and 60th Street . Her goal was to create a space along Hansel and Gretel where fashion, art and sugar are mixed in total harmony. Judging by the more than 7,000 candies on her shelves and Madonna, Michelle Obama and Tom Cruise among her customers, she has it done.
Willy Wonka's Paradise
**VANILLA SHAKE AND COOKIES ON BLACK TAP **
Another candidate to generate a tsunami of saliva in the mouth to sugar addicts are the black tap shakes . With two locations in Manhattan, one in the always bustling Soho and the other in the Meatpacking District, his creations have become the most integrated in the city . The top-of-the-range shakes measure more than a foot and, except for the cup and the straw, everything is used. The crowd favorite is The Cookie Shake consisting of vanilla milk with cream, encrusted biscuits and biscuit powder. But one should not underestimate the sweet and salty that comes covered in M&Ms and pretzels or the Cotton Candy carrying candy and cotton candy. We recommend running around Central Park a couple of times afterwards to burn off all your calories.
These smoothies are eaten with a knife and fork
**CHEESECAKE AT EILEEN'S SPECIAL CHEESECAKE **
Adoration of this New York classic is celebrated in many bakeries but those with a sweet tooth have to meet Eileen . This New Yorker began, in the 70s, making cakes following her mother's recipe from her apartment and currently she has a small empire that satisfies the sweetest desires, by mail and with all her freshness, anywhere in the United States. In addition to whole cakes, she serves individual portions that can be cleared in one sitting. And it's to go crazy because they serve 23 varieties. The traditional New York cheesecake It has been served in the city since the 1920s and is crowned with strawberries, natural and in jam.
With natural strawberries and jam
**CARROT CAKE AT AMY'S BREAD **
Upon entering this pastry shop it is difficult to fix your eyes on a single point. His specialty is good bread, the one that crackles when you break it, and the pastries but where you have to stop short is in the cake window. Although its chocolate is highly recommended, you will hardly find a Carrot Cake better. Of course it comes packed with carrots and walnuts but its sweet cream cheese topping is one to swoon over. A sign on the door should warn you.
The best carrot cake of your life?
**CHOCOLATE CAKE FROM THE CHOCOLATE ROOM**
You don't mess with chocolate and in this charming Brooklyn spot (luckily there are two, one in Cobble Hill and another in Park Slope ) take it as a mantra. We are talking about a perfection of three layers of fluffy chocolate cake , with divisions of chocolate cream and a thick black cocoa coating that is devoured with an authentic orgasm on the palate. What makes this cake unbeatable is that, unlike most of those consumed in the city, sugar is not abused to better appreciate the intense flavor of chocolate.
**COFFEE FIORELLO CHOCOLATE MOUSE**
There are two reasons to ask for a table in this beautiful restaurant in the Upper Westside. The first, because it is the favorite of many singers who perform at the New York opera house that is just opposite, in the Lincoln Center. The second is not for his crispy thin crust pizza (which too) but its exquisite chocolate mouse. Pay attention to the ritual because the waiter appears in the kitchen armed with two buckets. One carries the chocolate mousse and the other cream , plain and simple. Without any hesitation he tosses you a ladleful of each onto a plate and leaves you in a creamy sweet dream you won't want to wake up from.
**SALTY PIMP FROM BIG GAY ICE CREAM SHOP**
How good does a good ice cream feel when the sun scorches in the stifling New York summers, right? But the ice creams of this original local village they feel like it even if a real snowstorm falls that buries half the city. Among the original variety of cones that they serve, you have to give a good lick to the Salty Pimp. The creamy vanilla ice cream it hides behind a layer of crunchy chocolate and comes drenched in dulce de leche. The only difficulty is finishing it off without ending up with a vanilla medal on your chest.
**CITY BAKERY HOT CHOCOLATE**
Forget about the cup of thick chocolate because in New York it is considered cloying and is always served liquid. But let's bite the bullet and stop at a real hot chocolate institution. City Bakery He is so devoted to it that he even dedicates an entire festival to it, every February, with amazing added ingredients like ginger, lemon, coffee, and even hot chili. So much complication is not necessary because your basic hot chocolate already comes with a gift, a marshmallow cloud drifting in a cocoa sea.
**TWO LITTLE RED HENS CUPCAKES**
We're going to make a mess of the great New York cupcake institution that is Magnolia Bakery. As you will try them anyway, we point out another of the most popular (and even better) in the city. They are made by hand in Two Little Red Hens , in the upper east side neighborhood , and well worth the ride there. The chocolate ones are truly delicious, but don't escape the power of seduction of the red velvet because they are at the top of the cupcake podium.
Red velvet cupcakes